Potters Marston / Mersitone
Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Entrance on south side the chapel dates from the 15th century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/potters-marston-st-mary/] [accessed 19 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 20005POT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Potters Marston, Leicestershire LE9 3JR
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A69, 18 km SW of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photograph of this church
Font Notes:
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Thre is an entry for [Potters] Marston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4996/potters-marston/] [accessed 19 August 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP4982196338] (1957) reports "a wineglass-shaped memorial font with lattice patterend bowl inscribed 'J S 1918-1945'" in this 15th-16th-century church.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 617311 5824516